Persons related to Chopin

François Joseph Fétis

*25 III 1784 Mons, †26 III 1871 Bruksela

Francois-Joseph Fétis - Belgian musical critic, composer and pedagogue. He founded a magazine "Revue Musicale", where he printed reviews and critical texts. He also wrote about Chopin, he aprecciated him, but a composer did not think highly of this influential critic.

Three Chopin's etudes were composed to the Méthode des Méthodes pour le piano of Moscheles and Fétis.